Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com> writes:
>> So, getting quite practical for a moment, the question is, do we want
>> to do the inittodr spin in todr_gettime or in the MD code? I favor
>> doing it in MI code if at all possible, in which case todr_gettime is
>> probably the place.
>
> Actually, my opinion is that todr_gettime() should do this only for the
> drivers that use todr_gettime_ymdhms.

That seems reasonable.

>> On the todr_settime side, it should be pretty easy to set the sleep
>> until the next tick happens right in todr_settime.
>
> Yes, but again, you don't want to do that if the rtc actually has
> subsecond precision.  Several do.

Ah. I thought that there weren't any like that out there. Assuming
that we have a few such, perhaps a device property should tell us
whether we have only 1 second precision or not, and the test in
todr_gettime and todr_settime could be based on that...

Perry